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aldostools / webMAN-MOD

Extended services for PS3 console (web server, ftp server, netiso, ntfs, ps3mapi, etc.)
https://aldostools.github.io/webMAN-MOD/
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CSO Support #584

Open Jopo-JP opened 2 years ago

Jopo-JP commented 2 years ago

I wonder if CSO would be a thing to run games. Compressed ISO.

Only downside would be, that heavy loading games could lag a bit while loading but a good amount of space can be saved.

Just something to throw in.

aldostools commented 2 years ago

This is something that would require to be done in Cobra payload. As that payload has limited memory, it would require the development of a proxy plugin like netiso/rawseciso but with zlib support. This is a difficult project that requires a good amount of time in development and testing.

As a "cheap" alternative, IRISMAN and webMAN MOD support compressed PSP ISO in zip/rar/7z format.

Another alternative is hosting the ISO on a PC using ps3netsrv. The ISO can be compressed using NTFS disk compression.

Jopo-JP commented 2 years ago

Yeah. ps3netsrv is quite amazing.

Unfortunately some games, don't like it to be played this way and you have to connect the PS3 with LAN, because the WiFi Chip is old and slow. Well some games should Still work only with Wifi like Gran Turismo 5 and 6 but not all. GTA4 will work but driving too fast will result in either no textures or crash.

Back to the topic.

Wouldn't it be possible to slightly modify the PSP CSO module to fit the PS3 one? The structure is somewhat similar.

aldostools commented 2 years ago

If I recall correctly, the module that handles CSO in PSP was added by DarkAlex into the CFW. As far as I know, PSP emulator in PS3 doesn't have these modules.

If Cobra Team didn't add support earlier, probably is because it is too difficult to implement or maybe not possible.